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if you could reblog this/share it with anyone who might be willing to help, i’d appreciate that a ton. i also have other methods of receiving but i won’t put them in this post lest i risk my blog potentially being shadowbanned again. just message me if you want them.

[Image 1: A Screenshot of an invitation to a Facebook group named: “A group where we all pretend to be ants in an ant colony.” Under that is a post in the group that reads: “We reached the center of the Earth. Now what?” Four people commented saying one word each in this order: scurry, dig, work, melt. These words are in capital letters and have spaces between each letter.]

[Image 2: Another Screenshot of a post in the group that reads: “It has come to my attention that when we put the spaces in-between letters it makes it difficult for visually impaired ants to know what we’re saying and so I was wondering if we could try to make this group more accessible for them. (The text to voice can’t figure out what we are saying with the spaces) (Picture of an ant for attention)” This text is then followed by a close up picture of an ant.]

[Image 3: A screenshot of some comments on the post in Image 2. Five people commented: adapt, adapt, inclusion, love adapt, adapt. These words are in capital letters and have no spaces between the letters.]

Because someone might as well!? And look at this. Look. At. This.

Does this look right to you??

These are just the last three fics I wrote. I appreciate the likes, believe me I do, but you have to understand. Likes do nothing for content creators. It’s the reblogs. Because that’s how you find shit on your dashboard. Through reblogs. Not likes. This isn’t twitter or tiktok or instagram. This is a website that’s run by the reblog system.

Reblogging helps content creators put their stuff out there. Why do you think so many people stopped writing fanfic and creating beautiful fanart and edits? It’s because they put in hours of work and don’t get nearly enough notes for their masterpieces. Yes we do this because we enjoy it but like...some validation won’t hurt. A boost of confidence here and there might be all someone needs to finish whatever thing they started and left.

REBLOG YOUR OWN WORK.

I've heard Ranboo is going to be using music from "Everywhere At The End Of Time" by The Caretaker for his upcoming lore. So, I'd just like to give everyone a forewarning before we get there:

Do not talk about Ranboo or the Dream SMP in the comment sections of the videos of the album on Youtube. Do not do it.

Not only is this extremely annoying to those people outside the fandom who just wish to listen to and talk about the project itself (and given how big the dsmp fandom is, you will totally flood that comment section and make outsiders rightfully hate us), but you also need to be aware that doing so would be EXTREMELY DISRESPECTFUL considering the context of why this music was created.

"Everywhere At The End Of Time" is a project created by an artist over many years of painstaking research and work in order to attempt to describe the experience of losing your mind to dementia, and to raise awareness for diseases like alzheimer's that cause it. It's a very solemn, serious thing, and it needs to be treated as such. It's not something that should be taken and turned into a fandom thing.

Lots of people have lost loved ones to dementia, and some of them go to this video project to watch it, understand it better, and discuss their feelings and their grief with others in the comment section. How much would it suck, do you imagine, for them to go and find tons of kids rambling about their favorite twitch streamer?

I like Ranboo, he's super cool and so is his storytelling! I don't think there's anything wrong with him using the music in his streams (so long as he doesn't associate it with something evil). However, there will be something very wrong if the fans can't respect the project. If you want to comment on the videos, don't say anything about the Ranboo or the dream SMP, only talk about the project and the music itself.

Also, this isn't Twitter. I know that on Twitter, it's largely expected for most of your profile to consist of mostly your own tweets, and not too many retweets. Tumblr is extremely different, in that the entire site is made up of shared posts. The site is designed for maybe 5% of the content on your dash to be original content at any given moment, while 95% will be reblogs from others, and that's perfectly acceptable and expected, actually.

i am so sorry but there is no way IN HEAVEN this is gonna go well. they are also planning to ask for donations

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Part of the reason I think a lot of people might be interacting with shipping content without knowing, is because the ship name isn’t the common fusion of their names, but is instead something that people might assume has the same meaning as “clingy duo” or “misferns”. 

A lot of that comes down to how subtly the concept of India has become entwined with the "exotic" aspect, such that we have ceased to become people and just become gold and turquoise moodboards with tigers and anklets and palaces. JK Rowling wasn't very subtle about her eurocentrism but we can rectify that and the fact that we totally don't is very jarring.

For starters, a lot of you like to use this lady in the Patil twins aesthetic:

This is Natalia Castellar. She is PUERTO RICAN. NOT INDIAN. STOP GENERALISING AND GIVING ZERO FUCKS ABOUT GETTING POC ETHNICITIES CORRECT.

Again, I see many of you make social media edits and the only graphics you use of Parvati and Padma are not their skills at Divination or friendships or simple cute pics as any young schoolgirl would use but the Taj Mahal and that one stock photo of bangles on a hand or something ......LITERALLY STOP. You might argue the Taj Mahal is a symbol of India but it's more or less a done to death symbol and NO ONE just has a random pic of the Taj on their insta or anything. It's like making a minor American character's aesthetic and putting the eagle as a pic or making an edit of Cho Chang and using stereotypical Chinese imagery. You might as well put in the lotus and the elephant.

Also I find it particularly insidious that while the other HP characters get well thought out patronuses according to their stories and traits (some of you even give Draco a Patronus) , the Patil twins get peacocks and snakes and tigers as supposedly "exotic traits", I don't know if it's just me as an Indian girl overreacting, but it's fucking creepy that you put down their entire personalities to their being the "exotic other".

Finally, not as a personal dig to anyone, believe it or not, Indian schoolgirls DO NOT wear a fuckton of golden bracelets and bindis and Kohl with their school uniform. Nor do we wear sarees to school ball dances. PLEASE KEEP THIS IN MIND WHILE MAKING THE FANART.

Edit with all the things that people are telling me:

BBH and Sapnap don't like to be shipped together.

Dream doesn't like people puting pressure on him for a face reveal, it makes him anxious.

Eret doesn't like to be shipped with people from the Dream SMP.

Tommy is ok with people using his face as pfp but he'll probably mute you on twitter because it overwhelms him a bit.

Tubbo only lets Tommy call him by his real name.

Oh and btw, there's this really cool blog ( @smp-boundaries (hope you don't mind the @) ) which is way more complete that my post, and has way more mcytubers and stuff.

Jshlatt got doxed 8 times. People have tried to dox dream twice. Thunder1408/Jack Manifold took a break because of all of this as far as I’m aware. Wilbur Soot ended stream early because of chat.

The fact that I can go to a friend and say “Jshlatt got doxed again” and they wont even hesitate to believe me disgusts me. Its sad its a norm here.

All of its a bit. They all have personas. Learn how to separate their persona from the person. Learn how to respect the person. Learn how to be a decent person with morals and common sense.

Don’t send death threats to creators over bits. Its honestly sad I have to say it. Grow up.

And while we’re still on the topic, respect their goddamn boundaries. Before you write fanfiction or draw art see what they are okay with being drawn in or written as and what they are not okay with.

Example: Eret, Schlatt, Tommy, Tubbo, etc aren’t okay with shipping. Wilbur Soot doesn’t want to be put in NSFW works, as do many other people. Just because the dream team is okay with everything doesn’t mean the rest of the smp is. Do your research.

If a creator doesn’t wanna be treated a certain way, do no treat them like that. Tommy, Tubbo and Dream don’t want to be babied. Don’t treat them as such. nothing more to it.

While I’m still here it’d be best to say it, don’t shame creators for their body types or draw them completely wrong because of the excuse of “his mc skin”. Doesn’t work. Don’t shame Sapnap for being chubby, don’t shame Fundy for being skinny, don’t white wash Skeppy in art, etc.

You’re like fourteen. A creator is not going to date you. I don’t know why it has to be said. Do not send hate to the ladies or gentlemen they date. that is their life and its good enough they trust us enough to share that.

Don’t look for a creators personal info. Just don’t. Its disrespectful, its creepy, and it can even be dangerous for them in some cases. (cough cough dream cough cough) (there are many examples, I just think a good one is dream)

Don’t talk about other streams during a certain cc’s stream unless they ask. Don’t try to tell your streamer to do something else than what they are doing in their stream already? Don’t wanna watch a minecraft stream? Wanna see cc play among us? Switch streams. Watch vods.

My lovely og minecraft watchers out there, as someone whos watched mcyts for literal years, I think its time to say, do not send hate to newer watchers. Just because they started later than you does not make them a “fake fan”. 

One last thing to say. The fact that creators have to tell off their chats for being toxic so much disgusts me. Don’t try to derail a stream because of something another streamer is doing. Don’t say toxic stuff when a creator is doing a bit. DO NOT SEND THEM DEATH THREATS OVER SOME SORT OF BIT. Have respect and have common sense. Grow up.

I know this wont get to the millions of people in the fandom/community but, to those who it did get to, just have some respect and decency. Its not hard.